Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Wagner

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

Charles Dickens

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

Charles Dickens

The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

Charles Caleb Colton

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

Charles Caleb Colton

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

Charles Caleb Colton

No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

Charles Caleb Colton

Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.

Charles Dickens

Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.

Charles Stanley

Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

Diane Wakoski

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

Dave Barry

This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat content.

Chow Yun-Fat

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me

Edith Wharton

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

Barry Commoner

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

Alfred North Whitehead

Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.

Karl Marx

Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

Nhat Hanh

The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?

Charles Dickens

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

John McCarthy

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

William Shakespeare

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

Gretchen Rubin

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

Edmund Burke

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

Juvenal

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

Kate Smith

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

Camille Paglia

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

Bob Beauprez

Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.